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The Playhouse

by: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton

Publication date: 1921

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Silent, Comedy, Buster Keaton

Publisher: First National Attracktion

Item Size: 777.5M

The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous.
In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures).
He is the band leader, all its members, the dancers on the stage and everyone in the audience.